Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-19
DALLAS.
Arrests for Passing Counterfeit Money
StemmOns- Gano Case

Arrests for Passing Counterfeit Money
StemmOns- Gano Case.
! Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, M6y l8.-A few weeks
| ago case was on trial in the District
court entitled w. B. Stemmons VS.. C.
Rush. w. B. Gano was the attorney for
Mr.. Rush. In his argument to the jury
he made some remarks concerning Stem
mons regarding the immateriality of his
testimony. After the speech he left the
courtroom and seated himself on the
stair railing of the corridor. Thus seated
Stemmons approached him unobserved
and dealt him blow that knocked him
down and rendered him unconscious.
Stemmons was arrested and gave bond.
To-day the trial came up. During the
testimony of Mr.. Gano, Colonel Williams,
Stemmons' lawyer, put question
to the witness, which was aimed
to show that Mr.. Gano was
aware of the attack of Stemmons,
putting Gano in rather an equivo-
al position: "Is it not fact, Mr.. Gano,
that when you were struck you threw
y ur arms In front of your face to shield
yourself from second blow, and
squatted or slid from the railing, instead
VI UeluS huOCheu uOW0E''
''No, sir; very empaticcally] on the
contrary, would give every dollar that
am worth if had been
conscious SO that l could
have defended by myself, and now,
sir, it is immaterisl to me what the state
does"
The affair has created considerable in
terest. Mr.. Gsno, after leaving the court
house to-day met Mr.. Stemmons and gave
him tongue lsshing; and the end is not
yet.
In the District Court of the United
States to-day the following case was
tried: The Moxie Nerve Food Company
of Maine rs. Hughes Bros. of Dallas. The
plaintiff makes application for a writ
Of Injunction to restrain Hughes
Bros. from manufacturing the
Standard Nerve Food, claiming an in
friDgement. The defendants reply that
MoXie is fraud and an imposition on
the public. That it IS not an extract of a
rare plant discovered by one Lieutenant
Moxie, but both the plant and Moxie are
fctions, and that the composition is sas-
safras, winter green, alcohol and Calves
ton cistern water, and by virtue of
these is not entitled to the protection
of the court of equity and they have
stolen the whole story of the rare plant
from the Wyomoke Nerve Food Company,
and that they are pirates as well as
frauds.
The following suits were filed in the
District court: Mrs. Mamie Bsrksdsle |
VS.. the City of East Dallas. Plaintiff |
claims damages in the sum of $1,000 for |
being dispossessed. of certain property.
G. Meyers ct al. vs.. Gus f. Keller, to |
remove cloud from title to certain
lands.
j. G. Harris, man sixty years of age,
was transferred from the Recorders
court to the County court, charged with
aggravated assault and battery. He
struck and kicked his wife, and resisted an
officer who used his club before he could
arrest him.
The City Council has levied the city
sXes Tor the ensuing year as follows;
Ad valorem tax, per cent; school tax,
per cent; railway tax, / per cent. and
per cent. for the new city bonds.
Captain William Scott of the Texas
Rangers, who was so seriously wounded
q fight with the Conner outlaws a short
ime ago, arrived in the city last night
Iearly entirely recovered.
To-day Francisco DiCahes, proprietor OF
he beer and lunch stand at the Union I
epot, and Themes Scanio, his clerk,
we're stressed by United States marshals,
harged with passing counterfeit money. i
Deputy Marshal Morton got on the trail ,
few days ago, and gave 8 !
ian q SIS bill with instructions '
D play drunk and buy 20-cent S
inch, which he did, and received 81 in
ounterfeit money. Last night he played l
lie same game with like result. The r
len were before Commissioner Bently b
lis afternoon, and put under bond .fera n
caring tomorrow. .,s,1saesySs- Il